I have analysed the reasons why Team India failed against Pakistan in the ICC Champions Trophy 2017 final and what can be done in the future to avoid such defeats.

Although,
nobody had thought that India
would loose to Pakistan, but, the country is particularly unhappy
over the way the Indian team played in the final. Other than Hardik
Pandya, no other batsman looked like putting up even a little bit of
fight. The team's batting lineup, considered as one of the strongest
in the world, fell like a house of cards.

In
Focus

Heroes
are those who swim against the tide and not with it. Although, Virat
Kohli was heard praising his opponents outplaying them during the
post-match presentation, he failed to mention about the inability of
his team to even reach the half way mark. Agreed, not all days are
alike when you can win but a team is at least expected to play a
normal cricketing game and put up some resistance.

Now
the fault lines are clearly visible. The worst hours need the
strongest of minds. Perhaps the Indian team needs to learn a thing or
two from its counterpart. Pakistan's intent was clearly visible right
from the time they took the field. The Pakistanis turned their
weakest link (thier batting) into their strength and then crippled
the strong Indian batting lineup with their strong bowling.

Most
of the people are extremely angry over Hardik's run out and rightly
so. It was not merely a run out, as it also revealed Jadeja's
selfishness. He might be a good player but in this match, he showed
that he is not a team man. Team India certainly needs good players
but not selfish players like him.

Cricket
is a ruthless game and your past victories do not matter. One is
required to perform his best every time in every single match and as
the matches becomes bigger, it needs more planning and a strong urge
of winning from a player by playing with his opponent's mind.

Perhaps
Virat's team failed to play with the opponent's mind. They were
complacent despite a huge total of 338 staring at them. Even in their
wildest dreams India would have never imagined that their top order
would collapse in a crucial final match. Subsequently, even the lower
order failed to rise to the occasion.

Team
India should take lessons from this failure, as failures are stepping
stones for success and some times a failure is required for one to
awaken from the slumber. There's nothing wrong in loosing but one
should introspect and look out for the reasons of failure and never
let it happen again.

Team
India should know that they have millions of aspirations along with
them all the time and they have to live up at all times. Every player
today is endowed with unfathomable respect, money and love and hence,
expected to deliver. Agreed, you don't win all the time, but then,
you can't also fail like this. Something to think over!

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